Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 16:00:03 +0200 From: Andre Oppermann <oppermann@pipeline.ch> To: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, ulf@Alameda.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Packet/traffic shapper ? Message-ID: <35F92CE3.BC7AF153@pipeline.ch> References: <199809100656.XAA00636@word.smith.net.au> <199809102011.QAA01590@etinc.com>
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Dennis wrote: > > At 04:31 PM 9/10/98 +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote: > >Mike Smith wrote: > >> > >> > What software solutions for FreeBSD do we currently have available ? > >> > >> The two best tools in this area at the moment are ALTQ and dummynet. > >> Searches on those two keywords should get you enough material to get > >> started out of the archives. Both of the principal maintainers are > >> FreeBSD committers, and we're looking forward to seeing their work > >> enter the mainstream soon. > > > >Hurray!!! Will ALTQ be in 3.0-R? > > I suppose that you mean "the 2 best free solutions"? No, until you give me more technically detailed description of your BW manager product. What I look for is an alternative for the standard FIFO queueing currently done in the BSD IP stack. You might know that bandwidth is quite expensive here in Europe and I'd like to drive my links up to 90% utilization. That is only possible if I have something like RED that does fair queueing on the FreeBSD routers, otherwise one big FTP transfer can eat up most of the bandwidth. FIFO in the IP stack is IMHO a really Bad Thing (TM) and should be replaced as soon as possible with RED or WFQ. > A commercial product is available at http://www.etinc.com/bwmgr.htm > > Of course calling it a "shaper" would be an insult! :-) -- Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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